VOGUE: FIRST LOOK: Versace Spring 2012 Couture
by Sarah Mower
Photographed by Kevin Tachman
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Donatella is back, you might have noticed. Riding high on the off-the-scale reaction to her H&M collaboration in November, she’s now chosen the moment to return Atelier Versace to public visibility during Paris…
A palette of choices
Bene qui latuit, bene vixit-
One who lives well, lives unnoticed
Truth is the most cruel excuse
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Unusual words
basorexia: an overwhelming desire to neck or kiss.
lygerastia: the condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.
brontide: the low rumbling of distant thunder.
dactylion: the tip of a middle finger.
nudiustertian: pertaining to the day before yesterday.
gargalesthesia: the sensation caused by tickling.
petrichor: the smell of rain on dry ground.
dendolatry: worship of trees.
lethologica: the inability to recall a precise word for something.
psithurism: a whispering sound, i.e: the sound of wind in trees, or rustling leaves.
witzelsucht: a feeble attempt at humour.
epeolatry: worship of words.
woundy: excessively; extremely.
tacenda: things not to be mentioned.
naupathia: sea sickness.







